Friday, August 21, 2009

Apache2 Configuration on SLES

Different but rather organized. A few tips:

To enable a properly installed module, edit APACHE_MODULES in the file /etc/sysconfig/apache2

Most server configuration directives are located in /etc/apache2/default-server.conf

Readline Not Found with Python Installation

After installing a different version of Python (2.5.4) on my SLES server, it complains about "readline" module not found, though it does exist on the system.

Fix is to install the readline-devel package and rebuild/reinstall Python.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

To Blow a Hole on SuSE firewall

Yast --> System -> /etc/sysconfig editor --> network --> firewall --> susefirewall2 --> FW_TRUSTED_NETS

Or edit the corresponding variable in the file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 directly